Carey v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of burglary, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of two years.

The record discloses that .on the night of May 30, 1933, the Magnolia Petroleum Company’s place of business, of which Tom Holman was then in charge, was entered by breaking the hasp of the lock off of the warehouse and one can of a hundred pounds of grease taken from said building. This can of grease had been shipped that day from Sweetwater to Hamlin with the shipping tag fastened to it. Some time during that night,…